China Airlines 737 explodes in Japan

20th Aug 2007

Passengers were forced to slide down emergency chutes with only moments to spare before a Taiwanese airliner exploded and caught fire following a landing at Japan’s southern resort island of Okinawa.The left engine of the Boeing 737-800 jet which belongs to Taiwan-based China Airlines exploded shortly after arrival in Naha city from Taipei.

The spectacular explosion ripped the plane apart, witnesses claimed, but all 165 passengers and crew have escaped safely.